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Michaela Fisher is a recent graduate of Wesleyan University and a 2017-2018 Thomas J. Watson Fellow studying worker cooperative and the greater solidarity econmy abroad.  Over the course of a year, she will travel to Spain, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Nepal, and Canada to explore their cooperative economies.

Miki Kashtan is an international teacher, creator of Convergent Facilitation, and author of three books, the latest being Reweaving Our Human Fabric: Working Together to Create a Nonviolent Future.

NCBA CLUSA has been promoting, protecting and advancing the cooperative way of doing business in all areas of the economy since 1916. Our members include co-ops in food, farming, insurance, utilities, and service co-ops.

Stephanie Van Hook wrote this article for YES! Magazine. Stephanie is the executive director of the Metta Center for Nonviolence, author of Gandhi Searches for Truth: A Practical Biography for Children, and host of Nonviolence Radio.  Find all this at www.mettacenter.org. 

Reed Ingalls is an intern at the Northwest Cooperative Development Center and a student at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, where he studies Cooperative Business Development and Restoration Ecology. You can read more of his writing at outgrowingcapitalism.wordpress.com